INSPIRED TALKS 147

The senses cheat you day and night. Vedanta
found that out ages ago ; modern science is just
discovering the same fact. A picture has only length
and breadth, and the painter copies Nature in her
cheating by artificially giving the appearance of
depth. No two people see the same world. The
highest knowledge will show you that there is no
motion, no change in anything ; that the very idea of
it is all Maya. Study Nature as a whole, that is, study
motion. Mind and body are not our real Self ; both
belong to Nature, but eventually we can know the
ding an sich. Then mind and body being transcended,
all that they conceive goes. When you cease utterly
to know and see the world, then you realize Atman.
The superseding of relative knowledge is what we
want. There is no infinite mind or infinite knowledge,
because both mind and knowledge are limited. We
are now seeing through a veil, then we reach the ' x ',
which is the Reality of all our knowing.

tf we look at a picture through a pin hole in a card-
board, we get an utterly mistaken notion ; yet what
we see is really the picture. As we enlarge the hole,
we get a clearer and clearer idea. Out of the reality
we manufacture the different views in conformity with
our mistaken perceptions of name and form. When